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Sermon
James Merritt
... sugar will get really, really low." The officer said, "Alright, then why don't you just step out of the car and walk this white line for me?" The man said, "I can't do that either officer." The officer said, "Why not?" The man said, "Because I'm drunk." Mark it down, some day, somehow, the moment of truth will arrive. Whether it is in the dark or in the distance, God watches, God sees, God knows. You may escape a judge. You may escape a jury. You may escape justice in the short-run, but you can't escape ...
4902. I’m Movin’ On
Philippians 3:12-14
Sermon
James Merritt
... ." Now what was the one thing Paul was seeking? "I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." (v.14) The word for goal is skopos which means "to look at." We get our word telescope from that word. It means a mark on which the eye is fixed. The word "prize" is a word that means a reward for finishing a race. Now what is the point? Paul said, "I have one goal, and I'm fixing my focus on that goal. I have built my life around reaching that goal." Paul ...
4903. Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow
Proverbs 16:1, 9, Philippians 3:12-15
Sermon
James Merritt
... are always looking at the future in a rearview mirror. A great man once said, "A blind man's world is bounded by the limits of his touch; an ignorant man's world by the limits of his knowledge; a great man's world by the limits of his vision." Mark it down—you're going to have foes when you try to reach goals and dream dreams. But there's one other obstacle you'll face, and that is failure. No matter how noble your goals are, no matter how hard you strive to reach them, you're going to ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... is in control of everything you are and everything you have and that He will reward your faith when you give it back to Him. Now that leads to a shocking conclusion: the real reason why people do not tithe is because they do not fear God. One of the marks of the fear of God is that you will tithe. Finally, the fear of God will affect your witnessing. "We know the fear of God. So we try to get men to put their trust in Christ." (II Corinthians 5:11, NLV) When you truly fear the Lord, you want ...
4905. In God We Trust
Proverbs 3:5-6
Sermon
James Merritt
... do. That is where God wants all of us to live. I still remember the day that someone called to inform me that a new head football coach had been hired at the University of Georgia and was giving a press conference on the radio. I turned it on and Mark Richt was giving an interview. Just as I turned the radio on, somebody asked Coach Richt the question, "Why did you come to Georgia?" Coach Richt gave several reasons and they were all good reasons, but what warmed my heart was when he ended up by saying this ...
4906. People Skills
Proverbs 12:26
Sermon
James Merritt
... to treat this relationship just as carefully. II. Be Compassionate With Foes If you've got any kind of convictions and principles about you at all, if you have any courage to stand up for what is right, if you are willing to take a stand for Jesus Christ, then mark this down - you are going to make foes, just as well as you make friends. It just comes with the territory. The issue is not - am I going to make enemies? The issue is - how am I going to respond to them? There are two pieces of advice that ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... the agony of spiritual defeat. David wrote the fifty-first Psalm to tell how his sin and even more his cover up had affected him. He said in Psalm 51:3, "I recognize my shameful deeds - they haunt me day and night." (Psalm 51:3, NLT) Incidentally, one of the marks that you are truly a Christian is that if you sin, it bothers you and eats you up. You see people sometimes think a Christian is someone who doesn't sin and that is not true. Both a Christian and a non-Christian sin, the difference is, sin bothers ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... in America, in our racial relations, were it not for Martin Luther King? How could one African-American man move an entire nation in a way that a civil war could not? The reason he could move this nation is because this nation could not move him. That is the mark of a tree; it stands firm. A tree also bears fruit. Verse 3 goes on to say, "Which yields its fruit in its season. (Psalm 1:3, NASB) Every life is a fruit bearing tree, but there are only two kinds of fruit bearing trees in this world; trees that ...
Sermon
Stan Purdum
... Spirit came powerfully upon the followers of Jesus who were gathered in the upper room in Jerusalem. They were so inspired that they rushed out into the streets and began preaching about Jesus. Some 3,000 converts were made that day alone. Most Bible scholars mark that day as the beginning of the church — the birthday of the church. Very likely, none of this comes as news to you. You've heard this all explained before. Even if Pentecost is not something you particularly wait for with excitement, you still ...
Sermon
Stan Purdum
... helps us understand something about sacredness. Isaiah's call was not a "once upon a time" experience; rather, it occurred at a crucial juncture in Judah's history - "the year that King Uzziah died." This was probably 738 B.C., and the king's death marked the end of a period of relative independence. Seven years earlier, Assyria had begun to gain power in the region, and Judah now came under the shadow of the Assyrian threat. Sometime in that year, young Isaiah found himself in the temple, and there he ...
4911. Things Change
1 Samuel 3:1-10 (11-20)
Sermon
Stan Purdum
... . Think back to when you were a child living with your parents. Whatever the circumstances of your home life, you likely had a sense that how things were in your family was more or less how things would always be there. It is a natural mark of immaturity to think that things won't change. In high schools, for example, kids who are not in the cliques often believe they are destined to be outsiders forever. When romantic relationships break up, kids sometimes see that as portending a lifetime of unhappiness ...
Sermon
Stan Purdum
... Testament by the coming of Jesus as a descendent of David. In addition to that, however, the rest of what God tells Nathan to tell David represents a change in how the covenant between God and Israel had been understood up to that point. In the past, it had been marked by the word "if." It was a conditional arrangement, with God saying in effect, "If you will obey me, then I will make of you a great nation." But now, in his words to David, God drops the "if." He simply says, "I will make for you a great ...
4913. Mrs. Proverbs
Proverbs 31:10-31
Sermon
Stan Purdum
... men. And when viewed through the more enlightened understanding of our time, it doesn't feel right to define a woman primarily by how well she serves others. It does, however, feel right if we are willing to apply that definition to all of us. Consider Mark 9:33-37 for example. There, Jesus discovered that his disciples had been arguing among themselves about which of them was the greatest. He said to them, "Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all." In other words, what should ...
4914. Public Notions of Jesus' Identity
Mt 16:13-20; Mk 8:27-30
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Brett Blair
... in the religious life of the Hebrews. His defeat of the 450 prophets of Baal on the top of Mt. Carmel was a story that was known even by little children. It was a commonly held belief among the Hebrews that one day Elijah would return and that would mark the end of the world. In the very last passage in the Old Testament, in the Book of Malachi, we find these words: "Behold I will send you Elijah the prophet before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes." Most of you have read Charles Schultz's ...
4915. Models of Morality
Mark 8:31--9:1
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King Duncan
... is it that makes you blush? Part of the problem is that we no longer have models of morality to inspire us. The philosopher Frederick Nietzsche once summed up morals and ethics in the question "Who are your heroes?" There aren't very many heroes of morality around anymore. As Mark Twain said, "It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."
Sermon
King Duncan
... explains a lot about Lyndon Johnson. Jesus and his disciples were coming to the town of Capernaum. As they entered the house where they would be staying, he asked his disciples, “What were you arguing about on the road?” But they kept quiet, says the writer of Mark’s Gospel, because on the way they had argued about who was number one among them. So, the disciples were human just like you and I are human. Who doesn’t want to stand out? Some of the greatest people who have ever lived were also among ...
4917. But I Wasn't Running
Mark 9:30-37
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Our Daily Bread
... won the Boston Marathon!' And you say, 'But I'm not running in the Boston Marathon.' And they say, 'Doesn't make any difference, you won.'" We can find at least one element that is common to both Mike Peters' analogy and the account in Mark 9. Jesus taught that heaven too will hold some surprises. Honor and glory will be granted for behavior that was so natural, so undistinguished, and so noncompetitive. Take, for instance, the simple illustration of receiving a child in Jesus' name. He was talking about ...
4918. The Disciples' Culture Shock
Mark 9:30-37
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Father George Griener
... wisdom that sunshine and rain are part of every life. But hearing this American hit song in Munich played havoc with my expectations. In fact, it was such a culture shock that the memory remains vivid even today, three decades later. Two millennia later Mark's Gospel continues to recall the culture shock the apostles had when the cost of discipleship finally dawned on them; when their expectations of the reign of God came face-to-face with hard-nosed reality; when fascination and enthusiasm with this Jesus ...
4919. Ambitious Disciples
Mk 9:33-37
Illustration
King Duncan
Jesus and his disciples were coming to the town of Capernaum. As they entered the house where they would be staying, he asked his disciples, "What were you arguing about on the road?" But they kept quiet, says the writer of Mark's Gospel, because on the way they had argued about who was number one among them. So, the disciples were human just like you and I are human. Who doesn't want to stand out? Some of the greatest people who have ever lived were also among the most ambitious. ...
Sermon
Gary L. Carver
... life. When Jesus came into the world, the dominant view of sin was going through one of God's red lights. Sin was doing something wrong. But Jesus helped us to see that sin was more than just doing bad things and not doing good things. Sin is missing the mark, missing God's purpose, goal, and ambition for your life. You are a dream in the mind of God and to be in sin means to be out of God's purpose for your life. It means not going in the direction that God would have you to go. To ...
4921. Back to the Future
Luke 9:28-36 (37-43)
Sermon
Gary L. Carver
The experience in the ninth chapter of Luke is called "The Transfiguration Experience of our Lord Jesus," and is recorded in two other gospels - Matthew and Mark. Preachers, teachers, scholars, and theologians are all aware that something significant happened. I'll join with the ignorant and say like most of them that I don't know what happened, but something special and very unique made an indelible impression upon the minds of those who experienced it. It ...
Sermon
Donald Charles Lacy
... of Galilee seriously. Are you and I among them? What has the Holy Spirit said to you about this? The materialism of America is widely — yes, universally — known. For all of our goodness and attempted good deeds, there is a shadow bringing question marks. Perhaps, underlying our witness is the fear of not living by bread alone. Our lives have become so saturated by consumerism, we are hardly able to think outside of such a mentality. The late Pope John Paul II spoke to our spiritual deficiency charitably ...
Sermon
Donald Charles Lacy
... . So, we thank her and acknowledge that God does whatever he chooses to do and with whomever he wishes. Grant that our wills be malleable and moldable for his touch. Is it truly "Mary Magdalene's Day"? The evidence is there. The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and, in particular, John differ. However, we learn that each of the four has a unique contribution. John's Gospel places before us a lovely story, featuring Mary Magdalene. It is immersed in emotion and we are recipients of the picture of a woman ...
Sermon
Donald Charles Lacy
... and even necessary for commerce to run smoothly. Some of us can remember vividly how these agreements functioned. Woe be unto that man who did not keep his word! If it happened more than once or twice and there were no extenuating circumstances, he was marked as a bad risk. Our fathers and grandfathers always knew instinctively what was at stake. Our dear Lord points out to us without fanfare, "Those who love me will keep my word." He adds a whole new dimension to the business transactions, mostly of ...
Sermon
David R. Cartwright
... is not an exact foreknowledge of the future but a deep understanding of what Jesus means for one's own time."1 Living up to what you do know about the teachings of Jesus is the best way to know what to do with them tomorrow. I believe it was Mark Twain who remarked, "It's not the parts of the Bible that I don't understand that give me trouble, but the ones I do." That little word, "guide," is an interesting word. The word as it's used in John's Gospel recalls how God led the children of ...
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